Resources for Schools

This easy to use workbook of lesson plans, PowerPoints, worksheets and games, provides engaging activities for 11 to 18 year-olds

This easy to use workbook of lesson plans, PowerPoints, worksheets and games, provides engaging activities for 11 to 18 year-olds

A programme of activities, games, lesson plans and resources on vaping, designed to complement schemes of work from providers such as Coram Scarf and Jigsaw
The KS2 pick and mix resources explore peer and on line influences, choices, healthy life style choices and norms with age appropriate content on vaping and associated risks.

A programme of lesson plans, powerpoints, bite size activities and fact sheets for KS3/ KS4 covering choices, influences, norms, with detailed content on alcohol, vaping and nicotine, cannabis and cannabis products, county lines and supply.

This booklet gives advice and support on reducing and giving up vaping or nicotine products

Four lessons to be delivered at age 12-14  (Year 8 or 9 / S1 or S2)
with two top up lessons at age 13-15  (Year 9 or 10 / S3 or S4)

What is Spiking? How to prevent it and what to do if your drink is spiked

‘Just a few drinks’ four short films on the physical, social and medical effects of too much alcohol on the immature body.

Fact sheet on the effect and consequences of mixing drink or drug with driving

An explanation of a range of preventable alcohol-related birth defects caused as
a direct result of drinking alcohol when pregnant.

Talk about Drug, Alcohol and Nicotine Education tool kit

Chapter one – INFLUENCES AND CHOICES
Types of drugs, categories and laws

Talk about Drug, Alcohol and Nicotine Education tool kit

Chapter two – ALCOHOL

Chapter three – CANNABIS
Cannabis and related substances, including edibles and synthetic cannabinoids

Chapter four – VAPING AND OTHER NICOTINE PRODUCTS

Chapter 5
WHERE’S THE HARM?
Exploring the effect of personal use, addictions, and supply on the community and others

This session of icebreaker and baseline activities is important to help you assess the knowledge, experience and behaviour of your class when you introduce alcohol as a topic. A model PowerPoint lesson and guidance is included at the start of this chapter.

This session of icebreaker and baseline activities is important to help you assess the knowledge, experience and behaviour of your class when you introduce alcohol as a topic. A model PowerPoint lesson and guidance is included at the start of this chapter.

This selection of activities introduces different types of drugs and explores the risk to teenagers, what influences a young person’s decisions and reasons for avoiding drugs.

This selection of activities explores alcohol, social norms and laws relating to alcohol consumption and the potential effect of consumption on health.

This selection of activities explores cannabis, the different types of cannabis, the potential effects on health and the law relating to cannabis in the UK.

This selection of activities explores vaping, social norms and laws relating to vape products and the potential effect of vaping on health.

This selection of activities explores the harms associated with substance use.

What advice could someone give to a person who has decided to try something like a pill or powder?

This selection of activities explores what is in vapes and their potential risk to health.

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This activity allows pupils to think about the future and to consider what things might make reaching their goals difficult

This bite size activity examines laws in the UK relating to vaping

This bitesize activity explores the impact of vaping and smoking on the environment.

This bitesize activity explores how to resist peer
pressure in a number of different scenarios.

To be used as a conversation starter or ice breaker in a lesson setting or for use in informal settings;

Some teenagers struggle to stop vaping even if they really want to. Here are a few tips that might help if you want to stop.

Teacher notes for all activities in the Assessing Knowledge chapter of the teacher workbook

PowerPoint to go with Model Lesson 1 – Assessing Knowledge

Teacher notes for all activities in the Assessing Knowledge chapter of the teacher workbook

Why to people choose to drink or not drink alcohol

Why people choose to drink or not drink alcohol  – answer sheet

Emoji true or false quiz – 10 questions on Alcohol

When it comes to knowing ourselves, we all reckon we know who we are. But do we?

There are 13 multiple choice questions coming.
See how much you REALLY know about alcohol!

Emoji true or false quiz – Answer sheet for the 10 questions on Alcohol

Do you know how many young people drink regularly in the UK and around the world?

Do you know how many young people drink regularly in the UK and around the world?

Laws relating to the purchase and consumption of alcohol for those under 18.

1. Why might a parent allow their child to taste some alcohol even if they aren’t allowed to buy it themselves until they’re 18?
2. Why do you think the law says that people under 18 can’t buy alcohol from shops, off-licences and supermarkets?

Considering the short and long term effects of alcohol on the body and the effects of alcohol misuse on and individuals, their friends and family and the wider community

Teacher notes for activities included in the Alcohol and its effects (physical and social) chapter of the Teacher workbook

There are strict legal limits for the maximum amount of alcohol that can be in a person’s blood when they drive

This selection of activities is important to help students to understand the effect alcohol has on the body, including the short term and long term physical effects and the social implications.

Discover how alcohol affects different parts and functions of the body

How alcohol effects different parts and functions of the body – simple version

Blank worksheet

As pupils get older, it is important that they understand the possible long term consequences of breaking the law.

This selection of activities is important to help students to understand fully the laws relating to alcohol and the consequences of breaking these.

Teacher notes for all activities in the Alcohol and the Law chapter of the teacher workbook

Laws relating to the sale of and consumption of alcohol for those under 18

What is a unit and how much is too much?

What is a unit and how much is too much?

This guide gives you tips on how to stay safe and drink responsibly if you choose to drink, plus advice on what to do and where to go for help and support if things go wrong.

What is a unit and how much is too much?

How the amount of alcohol consumed can result in different outcomes

How the amount of alcohol consumed can result in different outcomes

From the teacher workbook

This selection of activities is important to help students to understand that similar drinks can contain different concentrations of alcohol.

Teacher notes for all activities in the Units and guidelines chapter of the teacher workbook

Anna fell out with her friends after drunkenly kissing her best friend’s ex-boyfriend at a party. She shares how an evening of drinking alcohol led to a series of events that have significantly changed her attitude to drinking.

Number of drinks sheet to be used with the consequences grid

Some of the potential consequences of alcohol consumption, plus times when alcohol should be avoided.

When alcohol is swallowed, how does it affect the body in the short term?

When someone swallows alcohol, it travels to the stomach and small intestine.

In this activity, you will be looking at the impact of alcohol in the community and on individuals, and then holding a debate on the subject in class.

Here are three situations. Read them in your groups and decide together how you would answer the questions below.

What do young people feel to be a successful/unsuccessful party?

Teacher notes for all activities in the Staying safe chapter of the teacher workbook

Latest alcohol-related statistics for England, Wales and Scotland

Surveys and research relating to alcohol use in young people

From the teacher workbook

12 cannabis emoji quiz questions

Answers to the 12 cannabis emoji quiz questions

The scenarios in these traffic light cards are designed to enable discussion and are for participants to articulate what they think is happening.

18 year old Jordan drank over half a bottle of neat brandy when he was 16 and it nearly killed him. At the time, he set out just wanting to enjoy himself, but after his experience with alcohol, his attitude to drinking has changed significantly.